HEC to Provide Temporary Structures for AJK varsity
Staff Report

ISLAMABAD—The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has approved new projects for the Immediate Temporary Structures for Faculty of Sciences at New Campus, Muzaffarabad and Faculty of Agriculture, sub campus, Rawalakot, in a recent meeting of the Departmental Development Working Party (DDWP.
The new projects are similar to those already provided and executed for the Muzzafarabad campus.
The projects would provide the university's new campus with laboratory facilities for six departments of the faculty of Sciences, offices for 30 faculty members, a boys' hostel for 180 students, one girls' hostel for 180 students and one faculty hostel for 40 faculty members.
The devastating earthquake of October 8, 2005 destroyed completely the infrastructure of the main campus and rendered buildings unsuitable for conducting classes. The libraries, laboratories, student-teacher centre, auditorium, administration block, mosque and residential facilities for students and faculty were damaged beyond repair during the calamity.
The present projects are part of a contingency plan for provision of prefabricated, steel structure buildings as an alternative for the regular classrooms and hostels. Classes were temporarily shifted to Islamabad for a year in order to save the academic year of the students and work on the projects for reconstruction was initiated.
The project to rehabilitate the infrastructure at sub-campus Rawalakot has also been approved which will provide eight classrooms for five departments, laboratory facilities for six departments, 10 offices, a library, a boys' hostel for 210 students, a girls' hostel for 120 pupils and offices for Deans and supporting staff to enable the University to re-start its regular classes on home ground.